Polish version below
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40 years after his Polish-Jewish mother and family escaped Poland to Denmark, Jacob, a young Danish film director, visits the building in Wrocław where the family lived. He tries to engage in conversations with the current tenants about a piece of furniture left there, an old German credenza. During the search, Jacob also involves his mother over the phone, which opens up new clues and wider perspectives
A personal, tragicomic story about how history and displacement of people affects the identity and human memory of different generations.
The director and protagonist of the film and initiator of the project KREDENS: LIVE, Jacob Dammas, is a Danish (of Polish-Jewish descent) documentary filmmaker and creator of cultural projects, based in Copenhagen and Warsaw. Graduated in communications from Roskilde University in Denmark and documentary filmmaking from the Andrzej Wajda Film School in Warsaw, Poland. His first Danish-Polish coproduction, “Kredens”, was awarded at e.g. Krakow Film Festival 2007, Odense International Film Festival in Denmark 2008 and shown at DokLeipzig, Hot Docs Toronto, Cinema du Reel Paris, and more than 30 other festivals around the world.
In this special Polish premiere (2023) of the film "Kredens" with live music on the rooftop of a historic building in the center of Warsaw, a Danish-Polish duo will perform on accordion and cello: Martin Bennebo (accordion), arranger of this music, graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, regularly performed and recorded with the Danish and Polish bands Mademoiselle Karen and Czesław Mozil. Martyna Sołtys (cello), a graduate of the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow, member of the Antarja string quartet and the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra, with which she tours in Poland and abroad. The composer of the music for the film "Kredens" is Stefan Thorsson.
After the 'film concert' meeting with filmmaker Jacob Dammas.
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40 lat po tym, jak jego polsko-żydowska matka i rodzina uciekli z Polski do Danii, Jacob, młody duński reżyser filmowy, odwiedza kamienicę we Wrocławiu, w której mieszkała rodzina. Próbuje nawiązać rozmowy z obecnymi mieszkańcami na temat pozostawionego tam mebla, starego poniemieckiego kredensu. W trakcie poszukiwań Jacob podpytuje również swoją mamę przez telefon, co otwiera nowe tropy i szersze perspektywy.
Osobista, tragikomiczna opowieść o tym, jak historia i przesiedlenia ludzi wpływają na tożsamość i ludzką pamięć różnych pokoleń.
Autor i bohater filmu i projektu KREDENS: LIVE Jacob Dammas jest mieszkającym w Kopenhadze duńskim (o polsko-żydowskich korzeniach) reżyserem filmów dokumentalnych i twórcą projektów kulturalnych. Ukończył komunikację na Uniwersytecie Roskilde w Danii oraz kurs dokumentalny w Szkole Filmowej Andrzeja Wajdy w Warszawie. Jego pierwsza duńsko-polska koprodukcja „Kredens” był nagrodzony na m.in. Krakowskim Festiwalu Filmowym 2007, Odense International Film Festival w Danii 2008 i pokazany na DokLeipzig, Hot Docs Toronto, Cinema du Reel Paris i ponad 30 innych festiwalach na świecie.
W tej specjalnej premierowej w Polsce (2023) odsłonie filmu „Kredens” z muzyką na żywo na dachu przedwojennej kamienicy w centrum Warszawy, zagra duńsko-polski duet: na akordeonie Martin Bennebo, aranżer tej muzyki, absolwent Królewskiej Duńskiej Akademii Muzycznej, regularnie występował i nagrywał z duńskimi i polskimi zespołami Mademoiselle Karen i Czesław Mozil, a na wiolonczeli Martyna Sołtys, absolwentka Akademii Muzycznej im. Krzysztofa Pendereckiego w Krakowie, członkini kwartetu smyczkowego Antarja oraz Orkiestry Filharmonii Krakowskiej, z którymi koncertuje w Polsce i za granicą. Kompozytorem muzyki do filmu „Kredens" jest Stefan Thorsson.
Po 'koncercie filmowym' spotkanie z autorem filmu Jacobem Dammas.
Polish version below
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40 years after his Polish-Jewish mother and family escaped Poland to Denmark, Jacob, a young Danish film director, visits the building in Wrocław where the family lived. He tries to engage in conversations with the current tenants about a piece of furniture left there, an old German credenza. During the search, Jacob also involves his mother over the phone, which opens up new clues and wider perspectives
A personal, tragicomic story about how history and displacement of people affects the identity and human memory of different generations.
The director and protagonist of the film and initiator of the project KREDENS: LIVE, Jacob Dammas, is a Danish (of Polish-Jewish descent) documentary filmmaker and creator of cultural projects, based in Copenhagen and Warsaw.
Polish version below
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40 years after his Polish-Jewish mother and family escaped Poland to Denmark, Jacob, a young Danish film director, visits the building in Wrocław where the family lived. He tries to engage in conversations with the current tenants about a piece of furniture left there, an old German credenza. During the search, Jacob also involves his mother over the phone, which opens up new clues and wider perspectives.
A personal, tragicomic story about how history and displacement of people affects the identity and human memory of different generations.
The director and protagonist of the film and initiator of the project KREDENS: LIVE, Jacob Dammas, is a Danish (of Polish-Jewish descent) documentary filmmaker and creator of cultural projects, based in Copenhagen.
World premiere of Pepi Fandango, a feature length documentary by Lucija Stojevic, at Warsaw Film Festival 39.
Short synopsis
Two old Viennese friends embark on a road trip to southern Spain. One is a Jewish Holocaust survivor haunted by the memory of Spanish Roma children singing flamenco in the camp, the other, his droll, guitar playing best mate, urges him to face the music.
The world premiere will be on October 7th, with the presence of the protagonist, Pepi, and director Lucija Stojevic, at 19:00 at the Atlantic Cinema D
The screening on October 8th will also have the presence of Pepi and Lucija and will be at 16:15, at the Atlantic Cinema C.
Screening of a documentary about a grandson searching for his unrecognized Jewish grandfather.
A few weeks before the opening of the Eichmann trial, transcripts of recorded conversations that Adolf Eichmann had had with a Dutch Nazi journalist, Willem Sassen, were mysteriously handed over to prosecutor Gideon Hausner. The conversations were held a few years before Eichmann was brought to Israel by the Mossad. During the trial, Eichmann tried to convince the judges that he was only a bureaucrat who carried out orders, but in the transcripts Eichmann was found boasting and proud of his significant role in planning and executing the Final Solution. For the first time, we will confront Eichmann with himself in full color, revealing the hidden factors and motives that succeeded in hiding these recordings.
Leandro is a frustrated Jewish wedding cameraman with no interest in his family’s religion. But when he falls in love with klezmer-playing clarinettist Paloma, he fabricates a documentary project on klezmer music in order to spend time with her. The film takes him through Eastern Europe in search of lost klezmer melodies that have been safeguarded by the Romani who lived alongside the Jews before the Second World War.
Award for Best First Opera – Berlinale 2023
The Jewish state, strung between the Mediterranean, Dead and Red Seas, has developed into a technological, economic and military power in 75 years. How did this Middle Eastern democracy survive in the world’s most challenging geopolitical neighborhood? Peace without peace? The documentary film Med, mleko i nemir by author Nejc Krevs sheds light on important historical, social and political milestones in the development of the modern Israeli state, from Zionist ideas, the Holocaust, the Jewish-Arab wars to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, peace negotiations and diplomatic relations between Slovenia and Israel. Krevs’ documentary debut offers an insight into the phenomenon of Israeli social and cultural contradictions formed by newcomers from more than 150 countries. The condensed ethnic space of the 9-million-strong Israel strengthens the spirit of liberal and secular thought on the one hand, and the breakthrough of religious zeal and noble conservatism on the other.
Veranstalter ist das Israel Jacobson Netzwerk e.V. in Kooperation mit dem Fachbereich Kultur und Wissenschaft der Stadt Braunschweig.
Die Darmstädter Filmemacher*Innen Christian Gropper und Barbara Struif erzählen vom Alltag von fünf jüdischen Jugendlichen aus ihrer Stadt zwischen Boxclub und Synagoge, Instagram und Koscher Life, Schabbat und Party. Gemeinsam geht es auf Entdeckungsreise durch die jüdische Kultur in Berlin und wir erfahren, was sie bewegt – von einem starken Zusammenhalt der jüdischen Gemeinde und der Konfrontation mit antisemitischen Sprüchen bis zu dem Gefühl von Angekommen-Sein oder Heimatlosigkeit. Und obwohl sie nicht unterschiedlicher sein könnten – mal mehr oder weniger religiös, mal künstlerisch oder sportlich interessiert – so gilt für alle das gleiche: sie wollen als Jugendliche im Hier und Jetzt gesehen werden und nicht als „Aliens“.
Veranstalter ist das Israel Jacobson Netzwerk e.V. in Kooperation mit dem Fachbereich Kultur und Wissenschaft der Stadt Brausnchweig.
Kinofilm “Minjan” im UNIVERSUM Filmtheater
David stammt aus einer russischen Einwandererfamilie und nimmt als guter Sohn regelmäßig an den Gottesdiensten seiner jüdischen Gemeinde teil, um das Quorum zu erreichen. Doch als Junge, der auf andere Jungs steht, fühlt er sich von den strengen Regeln seiner Community mehr und mehr eingeengt. Ausgerechnet die Nachbarn seines Großvaters, ein älteres schwules Paar, lassen ihn die Möglichkeiten von homosexueller Liebe erahnen – aber auch die plötzliche Vergänglichkeit allen Lebens. David beginnt, sein Begehren in den Bars und Clubs des East Village zu erkunden.
In seinem vielschichtigen Regiedebüt erzählt Eric Steel von einem sexuellen Erwachen, vom Bruch mit tradierten Werten und einem Glaubenskonflikt inmitten eines noch nicht gentrifizierten New Yorks, das gleichwohl bereits unter dem verheerenden Eindruck von HIV/Aids steht.